I never did anything really useful or interesting, and it looks as if I never will.
I might just as well be dead.
Sometimes I wish I were.
In fact, I wish Id never been born!
At the end of The Greatest Gift, the stranger spells out his lesson for George.
Yet you denied that gift.
No, George Bailey operates the Bailey Brothers Building and Loan.
That change of job reframes the stakes of Georges existence, makingIts a Wonderful Lifeall the more relevant today.
Nor is every heel like Potter on the movie screen.
People who know that others arent simply cattle to be corralled but humans whose flourishing helps us all.
